Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy was one of those rarest of
comedies, a film that gets funnier the more you watch it and one that has so
many quotable lines that you’d laugh yourself silly before running out while reciting
them with friends. Like Airplane! and
This is Spinal Tap! it was a film
that you could introduce to friends and watch them fall in love with and watch
on a loop without getting bored. As a nineteen year old in 2004, that’s how my
friends and I saw it anyway. In the years since, the film’s star Ron Burgundy
(Will Ferrell) has made occasional appearances in adverts and the like as well
as a, let’s be honest, poor and straight to DVD Wake Up Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie which was compiled using left
over footage from the first movie. Now though, nearly a decade later the famous
New Team has finally assembled for a much anticipated two hour sequel.
I have an odd love/hate
relationship with Will Ferrell. Sometimes he seems like the funniest guy in the
world and his comic creations slay me. More than half the time though, he
really annoys me. In Anchorman his
Ron Burgundy character was always the former of these two Ferrells’ but
unfortunately for long periods in Anchorman
2 I found his greatest creation not just annoying but also dull. Annoying
and dull are two words that I’d also use to describe the film as a whole. That
being said, it is not without its moments and most of these come flying from
the gaping mouth of Brick Tamland (Steve Carell), the man who saves the movie.
